Good-bye PC maker Dell and hello cloud company Dell

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Ted Samson.

Back in May, "Mad Money"’s Jim Cramer declared Dell’s stock dead, citing the company’s inability to compete with the likes of Apple in the ever-shrinking laptop and PC market. That very day, the company’s stock dropped significantly — and continued to do so for most of the remainder of 2012.

That price drop may be one of the best things to happen to Dell in recent memory in that it has put company founder Michael Dell in a position to inexpensively bring his company private as soon as today. By going private, Dell removes itself from the scrutiny of shortsighted, consumer-fixated Wall Street analysts who are sometimes too dazzled by the new and shiny to see beyond the next quarter…

The truth of the matter is Dell has slowly been reinventing itself over the past few of years, making the transition from Dell, maker of low-priced PCs to Dell, cloud-focused enterprise hardware and services company. Just take a look at the 15 companies Dell has acquired in the past three years or so alone, and its road map becomes eminently clear…

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